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355 pages, Hardcover
First published February 21, 2019
"In last three years, our foundational team had trained more than 550 doctors during seven hostile environment surgical courses."
“The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride.”
"It was very difficult not to get involved in the reality of the experience for the people on the ground, whose lives were being torn apart. I felt for them keenly. The citizens of Sarajevo were lovely people who had not harmed anyone, yet were being harmed. I did not know them or their past lives, but they were very vulnerable."
“As the quran says in surat 5:32 whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved the life of whole mankind.”
“Is the practice of medicine a business or is it a vocation? Where does the balance lie between doing well and doing good?”
“Vulnerability of human life that - when it is stripped down to its basics - makes us all the same.”